China Has Too Many Bachelors: Kazi kwenu mnaolilia kuolewa!

Dudley Poston, a professor at Texas A&M University, is fascinated by China's "demographic exceptionalism." The country has the world's largest population, and in the 1970s managed to achieve one of the fastest fertility declines in human history. China's one-child population policy has resulted in a number of unique demographic events and transitions, including an imbalance of the sex ratio at birth. Millions of extra boys have been born: Already, 41 million bachelors will not have women to marry.